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John Jun. Blue
in the Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890
Name: John Jun. Blue
State: VA
County: Hampshire County
Township: 10 00
Year: 1782
Record Type: Continental Census
Page: 26
Database: VA Early Census Index
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Name: John J Blue
Birth Date: 1713
Birth Place: Somerset County, New Jersey, United States of America
Death Date: 1791
Death Place: Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States of America
Cemetery: Indian Mound Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States of America
Has Bio?: N
Father: John Blew
Mother: Cattron Blue
Spouse: Mary Blue
Children: Hannah Herriott
John Blue
William H Blue
Peter Keyser Blue
Michael Blue
Jacob Blue
Benjamin Blue
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About John Blue III
John Blue and his family were probably drawn to Hampshire County by the existence of a sizeable Dutch population,which had previously migrated from New Jersey and New York. According to Maxwell and Swisher in "History of Hampshire Co., WV", George Washington, as a lad of 16 years, was commissioned in 1748 by Lord Fairfax to survey
some of the Fairfax lands. "On April 4 he made an entry showing the kind of people who lived there (along the South Branch of the Potomac), and who were all squatters on the lands of Lord Fairfax, or at least on land claimed by him....... .
On April 4 he (Washington) writes, 'We were all attended with a great company of people, men, women and children, who followed us through the woods, showing their antic tricks. They seemed to be as ignorant a set of people as the Indians. They would never speak English, but when spoken to all spoke Dutch'."
Since John's first wife, Mary Marshall, had her last child in 1753, it is probable that she had died before the family set out from Somerset Co., NJ, or that she died during the journey to Virginia. Sometime in the 1750's John married his
second wife, reputed to be Margaret Keyser (some say Van Meter). Together, they had ten children to add to the four from his first marriage.
Sometime after 1 May 1754, John Blue (Blew) received a grant from Lord Fairfax for Lot 27, 304 acres on the South
Branch of the Potomac River. He and his family lived on this land, located on the east bank of the river just south of
Hanging Rocks, for about twenty years. In 1770, at about the time of his father's death, he purchased Lot 31, north of theRocks and containing 243 acres, from Job Welton. He was living on this tract of land when he died in 1791. In 1773 he
purchased Lot 30, containing 312 acres, from Thomas Wood, and in 1774 he received a grant of 203 acres adjacent to
Lots 27 and 30. So, at this time, John (1.1.1) owned 1062 acres along the South Branch, surrounding Hanging Rocks.
John Blue's will was proved on 14 April 1791. In this will he divided his land between his four eldest sons (sons of his
first marriage); John received Lot 30, except for seven acres above the Rocks which went to Uriah; Uriah received Lot 27;
and Michael and Garret each received a half share of Lot 31. Each son also received a one-fourth part of the "new survey"of 203 acres. Each of these four sons was obliged to pay certain sums of money to the remaining ten children.
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